FNC crew caught in rocket attack in Israel…
FNC’s Jerusalem correspondent Reena Ninan was caught in the middle of a rocket attack a little while ago. Ninan, along with the crew, went to cover the conflict in Sterot, Israel and ended up getting caught in between fire.
I hope she is safe. I was just listening to a report she did on FNC with Jon Scott between noon and 1PM today. There is nothing safe in that part of the world.
Comment by RGL — May 15, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
If something did happen to her she asked for it. Heck only an idiot would be in the middle of things there. NO job is worth getting killed for.
Comment by Me — May 15, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
At least she and people like Anderson Cooper are willing to go into harms way. I wish her the best.
Comment by eddiebear — May 15, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
Me:
So lemme get this straight. It’s stupid for a reporter to go into the hot zones, yet the truly “brave” ones are the ones who sit in an office hurling insults from behind a desk?
Comment by eddiebear — May 15, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
So “Me” posts over and over that FNC “doesn’t cover news” that much, it’s just “yelling and screaming”, etc etc. And when one of Fox’s reporters has a close call in a war zone, all of a sudden “Me” does an about face, and calls the reporter an idiot for reporting news. Cellophane couldn’t be more transparent.
Comment by johnny dollar — May 15, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Me, that was a stupid statement. Anyway, I have more respect for the ones who leave the studio. FNC needs to bring this hottie to NY and put her on F&F so I can check out her fancy footwear.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
You can say a lot of things about FNC, but they have superb international reporters. The FNC news reports from Israel the best on cable news.
Comment by RC — May 15, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
I can’t believe you said that, Me? I personally hope no reporters or cameramen from any station or any country gets killed trying to tell and report the news.
Comment by Noelle — May 15, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
what a shame, to bad it aint billo
Comment by bill — May 15, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
“she asked for it”??
After reading me’s comments on this and other issues, it seems as if he is destined to develop an uncontrollable nose twitch, you know - like a rat.
Comment by Cella — May 15, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
Me=imbecile=blockhead=dope
Reena Ninan has been in New York, Terance. She’s been everywhere, but I think they are censoring the feet just to keep you watching.
Is it on You Tube yet? Anyone have a link?
Comment by erljr — May 15, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
Come on guys… FNC is making the news? Check the title: Fox News reporter under fire… So.. the ‘news’ is not about the rocket attack… is about the reporter…
And by the way this history is only broadcasted at this hour (the history about the rocket attach not about the small US based channel Fox News) by Al Jazeera English… Even BBC World or CNNI are talking about it because is a big non news event…
Looks very sensationalistic to me… Nothing is happening… only a injured woman and no more. This isnt making headlines for news organizations… Only in FNC because the reporter ‘was near’. My God…
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
The history about the rocket attack — I mean…
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
Erljr, I’ve seen her a few times from the “neck up” in DC or NY. But, yes, for some odd reason Ms. Ninan’s footwear choices are nowhere to be found….
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
“If something did happen to her she asked for it…”
Comment by Me
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
“If something did happen to her she asked for it…”
Comment by Me — Be a war corresponder is the most dangerous job. Unfortunely news channels need reporters on the ground and they are in danger always… Shootings, attacks, kidnappings… Iraq, Middle East, Somalia, Afganistan, the war zones.
They are the stars… No one of those people want to be killed… its ‘the top job’.
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
“If something did happen to her she asked for it…”
Comment by Me —
Be a war corresponder is the most dangerous job. Unfortunely news channels need reporters on the ground and they are in danger always… Shootings, attacks, kidnappings… Iraq, Middle East, Somalia, Afganistan, the war zones.
They are the stars… No one of those people want to be killed… its ‘the top job’.
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 4:13 pm
“At least she and people like Anderson Cooper are willing to go into harms way.”
So the Vanity Fair Oscar Party is in harms way? Just because he’s in the same country as a conflict does not means he’s in harms way. There is no way CNN would ever let a hair on that man’s head be harmed. John Roberts was more in harms way in Isreal and Iraq than Cooper’s ever been.
What about Nic Robertson or Peter Bergen or Kyra Phillips, how come no one ever mentions anyone else?
Comment by Mary Snow — May 15, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Ieps.. I dont understand why CNN is trying to make ‘a star’ from Anderson Cooper. Lets try real journalist like Robertson or Amanpour… Why always Cooper.. we dont know.. perhaps someone is in love w/ him in CNN…
The coverage: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/499912484_b1ba8e42f6_o.jpg
Al Jazeera covering the rocket attack… BBC World w/ the litle british girl lost in Portugal and CNNI w/ USA politics.
Comment by Rodrigo — May 15, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
I saw Kyra Phillips anchoring this morning. I must say I see her in a new light since seeing her in Iraq. And it also helps that it wasn’t just a cameo appearance.
Comment by erljr — May 15, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
Oh, I agree that Robertson, et al also go into the thick of things.
Comment by eddiebear — May 15, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
It’s not as if the correspondents freely choose the cities in which they are posted. Reenan was assigned to Israel. I doubt if she volunteered. They probably sent her over there to gain experience as a reporter. She began as a producer, not an on-air correspondent. Compared to others, Reena is unexperienced as a correspondent. However, I think she’s great and will be an excellent reporter for years to come.
Comment by Objective Analyst — May 15, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Reena spent a lot of time in Iraq as well.
Comment by spiffo — May 15, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
Reena spent a lot of time reporting from Iraq as well, and she was excellent.
Comment by spiffo — May 15, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
#7 — “You can say a lot of things about FNC, but they have superb international reporters. The FNC news reports from Israel the best on cable news.”
Apparently you’ve missed Ben Wedeman on CNN.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
Fox News does not have this story up on their website, so I guess it’s not too “sensational”.
And I’m sure Ben Wedeman gets reports from both the Palestinian’s who hate Israel as well as Israelis who hate Israel.
Comment by thelurker — May 15, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
Terrence, I haven’t missed Ben Wedeman on CNN, I know his work well. He’s very good, even when getting shot in the ass. But FNC’s Griffin set the highest standard in cable TV reporting from Israel, and it looks like Ninan is following in her footsteps. All other cable TV networks are behind FNC on this one.
Comment by RC — May 15, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
I’m not taking anything away from Griffin. But, she’s not better than Ben. So, therefore FNC’s reports from Israel aren’t the best. Oh, that reminds me. How can FNC’s reporting be the “best” when they only tell the pro-Israel pov? I don’t know about you but I like to hear both sides of the story and decide for myself.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
> they only tell the pro-Israel pov?
I think Steve Centanni might take issue with that. Geez, why do people just make up stuff to smear Fox?
Comment by johnny dollar — May 15, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
“How can FNC’s reporting be the “best” when they only tell the pro-Israel pov? ”
CNN only shows the Arab side if things. So what?
Comment by TC — May 15, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
Mr. Dollar, aren’t you on FNC’s payroll? Or do you just run a website devoted to every sentence uttered on there for fun? And FYI, I praise and rip on FNC when warranted…along with the others.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Yeah, I get my paycheck and my marching orders directly from Rupert Murdoch. In fact, I call him Rupe, we’re so close. None of which has any bearing on making a blatantly false statement (”they only tell the pro-Israel pov”) just to smear Fox. I suppose it says something that there isn’t enough truthful ammunition so the Fox haters have to make up stuff to use against FNC.
Comment by johnny dollar — May 15, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
Johnny Dollar, it wasn’t “just to smear Fox” its the truth. But, I don’t expect a paid poster to do anything but cheer for the home team.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 8:21 pm
Mr. Dollar, aren’t you on FNC’s payroll?
Terence: C’mon, you are much better than such a comment!
Comment by Ira — May 15, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
Cite your documentation for the claim that Fox never tells the Palestinian POV. Since I know that’s a lie, I’m not expecting much in terms of proof. For that matter, where do you get the “fact” that I’m a “paid poster”? Either you have documentation for that, or, like your last claim, you made it up out of thin air to smear me. Back it up, retract it, or I shall ask Spud to take action. I don’t think he wants his comment threads to be abused by people who make up lies about other posters.
Comment by johnny dollar — May 15, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
Johnny Dollar, when exactly did I mention Palestinians? Oh right, I didn’t. I guess you just decided to point the conversation in that direction, eh? I asked if you were on FNC’s payroll… unless you were being sarcastic, I took that as a yes.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 8:56 pm
Don’t try to weasel. If Fox as you claim “only tells the pro-Israeli pov”, then they don’t tell the POV of Palestinians or anyone else who isn’t Israeli. I’ll take your evasion as an inability to document your made-up claim.
> I took that as a yes
Well don’t.
Comment by johnny dollar — May 15, 2007 @ 9:03 pm
Johnny Dollar, I took offense to you playing the “moderator card” with me. I choose not to engage with you any longer.
Comment by Terance — May 15, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
Terence: FYI, during the Israeli-Hezballah battle last summer, there was much criticism among Fox viewers directed at Jonathan Hunt for his alleged pro-Palestinian reporting while covering the fighting in Beirut.
Comment by Ira — May 15, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
I seem to remember several reports from Griffin explaining the convoluted/confusing alliances, hatreds, and bitterness between several different Palestinian factions around the time of the Palestinian elections; about a year before the Hezbollah/Lebanon War. They had little to do with Israel.
Then I remember a special featuring her, Brit Hume, Dennis Ross, Mike Tobin and others putting Lebanese and Palestinian politics in perspective. This was about six months before that war; and it also had very little to do with Israel.
I watched lots of CNN during the Hezbollah/Lebanon War, and I don’t remember seeing much of Ben Wedeman. I remember CNN bragging about how many personnel they had in the area. I concluded then as I conclude now: FNC has better, more in depth, more comprehensive mideast coverage. Hands down.
Comment by erljr — May 16, 2007 @ 1:00 am
Ira, Erljr, thanks for your opinions. But, I didn’t mention anything about Palestinians.
Comment by Terance — May 16, 2007 @ 6:24 am
[i]Johnny Dollar, I took offense to you playing the “moderator card” with me. I choose not to engage with you any longer.[/i]
translation: I can’t back up my one sided pro-palestinian thug agenda with some proof.
Comment by Noelie — May 16, 2007 @ 8:27 am